IPL: Now going through the exit door, the Chennai Tremendous Kings have loads to ponder

It’s a no brainer that any crew going through an early exit from the IPL wants to return to the drafting board earlier than subsequent season — however the issue shouldn’t be that easy with the Chennai Tremendous Kings.

Their unstinting backing of the superhuman skills, captaincy and imaginative and prescient of 1 man is now below extreme scrutiny, whereas there appears to be a determined want for brand spanking new route from the help workers.

The query is: Who will bell the cat?

There are nonetheless 4 video games to go for the Yellow Shirts and assuming they win all of these right here on out, the five-time champions nonetheless end with a most of 12 factors and keep away from being final within the desk.

That may actually not suffice for a crew with such a robust legacy — it’s a shock that it’s going to miss making the ultimate two years in a row. And to suppose that it was as soon as a working jest that the IPL was a event the place seven different groups (within the erstwhile eight-time format) vied with one another to play the CSKs within the closing.

The most important quandary earlier than India Cements Restricted, homeowners of the franchise, now could be figuring out the destiny of Mahendra Singh Dhoni. However then, it’s not their solely drawback.